Running DOSEMU from a FAT32 partition
The DOSEMU HOWTO describes a procedure under
'harddisks' that allow dosemu to run a version of DOS (I assume those which support Win98 also) directly from the FAT partition. I was attempting to do this but could not establish the symlinks necessary to even attempt a boot. For instance, establishing a symlink like: ln -s command.com /fat32/command.com produces only ln: `/fat32/command.com' : File exists and no link. Am I doing something wrong here? Should this be a hard link? TIA |
two things to consider:
a) FAT32 does not support symlinks, so you can only symvlink from linux FS (ext2, ext3, etc.) to FAT32, but not from FAT32 to linux b) the syyntax is: $ ln -s existing_file new_name_of_file you might have swapped the filenames |
You're right! I had it backwards.
It has been some time since I had to create a symlink and if I recall correctly I did it backwards then too. I sure wish 'man' pages contained examples. But, then this forum would probably not exist. |
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